Learning Objectives After completing this session, you should be able to:

Discuss how team interactions are influenced by the individual preferences and type of team members

Understand how to communicate and work effectively with others using type

Develop strategies to work others with opposite preferences to yourself

Understanding Your Type

During the program we will explain the ideas underlying the MBTI® tool and ask you to undertake a self assessment

The score you record on the MBTI® instrument will report one of 16 different types as your results

You will use your self-assessment, your results, and Introduction To Type® booklet to decide which type fits best for you

The exercises in this program to show you how the types differ from one another and to help you clarify what your type means for you as a leader

About the MBTI ® Instrument

An indicator – not a test

Forced-choice questions

No right or wrong answers –Takes about 20-40 minutes to complete

Your results are confidential

The MBTI® questionnaire looks only at normal behaviour

There are no good or bad types – all types have some natural strengths and some possible pitfalls or blind spots

Now Let’s Take the MBTI ® Questionnaire

As you answer the questions:

Think of what you prefer when you do not have outside pressures to behave in a particular way

Think of yourself, outside of the roles you play at work or in personal life.

Complete the MBTI Questionnaire Form M 1. Read the instructions on the front 2. Answer the 93 questions – use a ball point pen and a hard surface 3. Do not tear off the side strips and open – we’ll do this together later

Behind MBTI Jung’s Theory – Basic Mental Processes We make decisions about We take in information information Perception Judgement Sensing Intuition Thinking Feeling You can’t use both methods of taking You can’t use both methods of making in information simultaneously, so we judgments simultaneously, so we develop a preference for using one develop a preference for using one method over another method over another

Behind MBTI Jung’s Theory – Orientation of Energy Extraversion Introversion Focus on the outer Focus on the inner world of things, world of thoughts, people, and events feelings, and reflections

Jung’s Theory

Jung believed that preferences are an innate inborn predisposition

He also recognised that our innate preferences interact with and are shaped by environmental influences: – Family – Country – Education – and many more…

Jung’s Theory

We will look at four sets of opposites – like our right and left hands

We all use both sides, but one is our natural preference

Jung believed that our preferences do not change – they stay the same over our lifetime

What changes is how we use our preferences and often the accuracy with which we can measure the preferences